Girl: Do you think Africans take antidepressants?
Guy: I really don't like you.
–L Train
Archive for the ‘KKK’ Category
Why He Got Fired from That Tour-Guide Job at the Holocaust Museum
Girl: Well, I had to explain the plot of The Diary of Anne Frank to him.
Guy: What plot? It's a game of hide and seek, the Jews are really bad at it, the Nazis are really good. The end.
–Starbucks, Waverly & 6th Ave
Overheard by: Lotte
Except for Tuesdays, When I'm Half Navajo.
Mom: Why don't you want to go to that high school?
White daughter: Because there are too many black people.
Mom: I thought you were black…
White daughter: Yeah, I used to be black by association, but now I'm Puerto Rican.
–Penn Station
Overheard by: DL
Gotta Admit, He's Mad Crackerish
Really white guy (loudly): Who is that fucking nigger you're working for now?
Another white guy: Pleasant….so do you live around here now?
Really white guy: Yeah, this is my hood.
–Deli, Greenpoint Ave / Manhattan Ave
Overheard by: Jesse
Luckily the Hoods Are Incredibly Slimming
Girl #1: Do you think this Beatles shirt makes me look fat?
Girl #2: No, but regardless you're still related to the founder of the KKK.
–73rd & Broadway
Or… Uhhh… to Make a Social Commentary on the Oppression of African Americans?
Older white woman: Can you tell me where you have the Ku Klux Klan Christmas cards?
Young Hispanic clerk: Excuse me?
Older white woman: A friend of mine told me he saw KKK Christmas cards somewhere, and I’m trying to find them. I know it doesn’t sound too nice, but I think he’s just going to use them to make a black joke or something.
–Hallmark
Overheard by: Black woman trying to maintain her cool
But Did You Notice How He Held His Spoon?
Woman #1: I think Tom was kinda weird.
Woman #2: Yeah, he was really into Nazis.
Woman #1: Yeah, there’s that.
–21st & Broadway
Upon Hearing How Dated and Tacky They Were, the Klan Immediately Decided to Disband
Tween girl on cell: I can’t believe there are still Ku Klux Klan members around. Isn’t that, like, so fifties?
–FAO Schwarz
Overheard by: Like, so someone who overheard this
He Thinks the Cones are Sort of Kitschy
Bodega guy: Hey, weren’t you at the Mets game?
Black guy: I’d rather be at a motherfuckin’ Ku Klux Klan rally.
–Bodega, Market & Monroe
Overheard by: benjamin lightle